SAN JOSE — Twenty five years of waiting was not enough. It had to be 25 years plus an overtime.

Climaxed by a thrilling finish.

Correction. Make that a thrilling Finnish.

“I think I have had a lot of scoring chances through the whole Finals,” said Joonas Donskoi, the rookie from Finland who saved the Sharks from becoming limp fish on a playoff platter by flipping a puck into the net for the winning goal in a 3-2 Sharks’ victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

“This was a good time to get it in,” Donskoi concluded about the puck that made it past Pittsburgh goalie Matt Murray.

Finns do have a way of expressing logic succinctly.

What a scene it was at the Shark Tank (Finnish translation: Hai Säiliö) on Saturday night.

A quarter of a century after San Jose’s favorite hockey franchise was born, fans of the team finally witnessed a Stanley Cup Final home game at SAP Center. They howled and screamed until they were teal in the face. They dressed in every variation of shark costuming imaginable.

And in the end, they saw a classic hockey spectacle they may be talking about for another 25 years, depending on where the best-of-seven series goes from here.

Without Donskoi’s goal, the series would have gone nowhere except misery for the Sharks, who lost the first two games of the series in Pittsburgh last week. Falling behind 3-0 in the series would have essentially ended any hopes of winning it for the beloved Los Tiburones.

But in a grinding, physical, tension-racked, throat-clutching three periods-plus of competition, the Sharks and Penguins demonstrated why their sport is so compelling and riveting with everything on the line.

The Penguins took the lead twice. The Sharks tied it up twice. Each team had great chances to score more in regulation and couldn’t. So this sent the game into an extra period. In hockey, that’s always sudden death. First goal wins.

The Sharks’ more familiar star players–Joe Thornton, Logan Couture, Brent Burns–took their best shots early in the OT but could not score. And then, after 12 minutes of Tank tension, here came Donskoi with the puck, moving behind the net and around to the Pittsburgh goalie’s right side.

Donskoi was shadowed by the Penguins’ hulking 6-foot-3 Evgeni Malkin and defenseman Justin Schultz. They were between him and the net. But somehow, the Finnish rookie managed to turn and fire the puck through both Malkin and Schultz — and most importantly, past Murray.

“I asked him if he knew where the puck went,” said centerman Chris Tierney, who had passed Donskoi the puck to set up the great individual play. “I don’t think he did. He just saw it in the back of the net.”

When he showed up in San Jose for the first time last summer, Donskoi was given the nickname of “Donkey” by Sharks’ development coach Mike Ricci.

“But he doesn’t like it that much,” Couture said. “So I don’t call him that. He’s been on my line most of the year and I don’t want to tick him off. So I call him ‘Donsk.’ ”

Now you can call him the first Stanley Cup Final legend in Sharks’ history. Although he is a rookie, the 24-year-old Donskoi played several years in the Finnish League before signing his first NHL contract a year ago. Last spring in the Finnish League playoffs, Donskoi said, he scored a crucial goal in a Game 7 victory.

And this was hardly his first big Sharks goal. Against the Los Angeles Kings in the first round this spring, Donskoi slapped through the winner in the clinching Game 5 at Staples Center.

But that was not in overtime. Or in a do-or-die game. Or in the madhouse atmosphere that SAP Center was for its first Stanley Cup Final moment.

“It was electric,” said Sharks coach Pete DeBoer. “It was amazing to stand back there (behind the bench). You could tell that these people have been waiting a long time. I think the guys really wanted to play hard for them. I thought we were a little jittery early probably because of that. I thought once we settled in, they were a big help for us. It was a grind of a game out there. Our desperation level was as high as it could be.”

“The building was probably more than half full during warm-ups and people were already yelling,” Tierney said. “I’ve never seen that. Guys were pumped up on the bench before the game.”

“It was the atmosphere I expected,” said Sharks captain Joe Pavelski. “When that goal was scored, the noise was so loud. It was awesome.”

So awesome that, when Donskoi scored, he broke his Finnish reserve and celebrated even more awesomely, throwing up his arms and breaking into a big smile.

Donkey, Donsk, Joonas, take your pick. Whatever you call him, Donskoi basically saved the series for his team and gave Sharks fans the night so many of them deserved after a 25-year-wait. On Monday in Game 4, we’ll see where the saga goes next..

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